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The CED-GIS Center
The Coastal Environment Data (CED) GIS Center at Florida International University supports and facilitates the teaching and research activities of the FIU community in the areas of geographic information systems, remote sensing, geospatial web visualization and geospatial data management.
About UsResearch
The CED-GIS Center is always involved in new projects — collaborating on grants and contracts with agencies and university partners using the latest spatial technology.
Climate Change · Ecosystems
Vegetation mapping of Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands, Phase I, L-31E Flow way and N Canal Freshwater Wetland Communities.
Climate Change · Ecosystems
Ecosystems · AI / GeoAI
https://maps.fiu.edu/birdnest/ (BirdNest AI — live dataset dashboard, model performance, and detection demo).
Collaboration on grants and contracts with FIU departments and other institutions across South Florida and beyond — from Everglades monitoring to sea-level-rise planning to citizen science and AI-assisted spatial analysis.
Hosting of FIU GIS courses in our state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories. From introductory undergraduate surveys to graduate certificates, classes combine rigorous coursework with real spatial data from the Center's own projects.
In the news
Dec 4, 2025
To read the full job announcement and apply, go to careers.fiu.edu and look for Job ID 536169 .
Oct 28, 2025
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 11am-4pm Location: MMC, Green Library GL 272 (GIS Center), GL 210A (Envision Lab), GL 280 (RefWorks) 11200 SW 8th St Miami, FL 33199 Come and learn about FIU faculty and student research and projects using Geospatial technology.
Mar 14, 2025
Exercise #4 -Regression analysis using ArcGIS Pro Objective: Learn how to build, interpret and diagnose OLS and Geographically Weighted Regression models in ArcGIS Pro For this exercise you will be using an official Esri training course.
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One short email a month — new projects, upcoming workshops, data releases, and opportunities for students and collaborators across South Florida.
